The X Gallery In New Bedford, Massachusetts has a call to art for their show “Relatively Abstract”.
Theme: Abstraction… A departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be slight, partial, or complete.
Deadline: Last day for drop off is Sunday July 1st, 2018 between 11am and 3pm.
Show opens Thursday, July 5th, 2018
Opening reception is Saturday July 7th, 2018 from 5pm to 8pm.
Entry fee:
for non members is $10 each, 3 for $25.
Anything over 3 pieces would be $10 each.
The July 2018 show at Premier Image Gallery in Ashland was a joint show between the BVAA, the Framingham Art Guild and the Franklin Art Association. Congrats to our members who won ribbons!
Watercolors – Second Place – Deb Bottomley
Honorable Mention – Elizabeth Havens
Honorable Mention – Verne Thayer
Sunflowers! There are sunflowers! Saturday July 28th and Sunday July 29th 2018 from 10am to 4pm. Rain or shine!
The BVAA has a Sunflower Exhibit coming up in September in Douglas, so this is the perfect time to get ready for it! Let us know when you’d like to go and maybe we can get a group together!
Details from the official website:
LOCATION
Community Harvest Project
37 Wheeler Road
Grafton, MA 01536
Join us for our first Sunflower Festival! This summer event will celebrate one of our favorite summer flowers with activities for all ages, including:
A Sunflower Maze in the fields for families to find their way through.
Pick your own sunflowers and zinnias to take home.
Summer activities for the kids.
Take photos with the sunflowers as a gorgeous backdrop.
Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy with fun lawn games, or grab a bite from on-site food trucks.
And of course, ice cream!
Tickets are $10 per adult and include 5 sunflowers (additional sunflowers are $1 each). Adult tickets do NOT include kids activities; a $5 Kids Pass will be available for purchase the day of the event.
“Finding Space” / Lisa SheaThis is a call to art for the Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They are extending their deadline for the show
Place (Holder)
to Friday, June 22th, 2018
Artists from all New England states are encouraged to submit work that fits the theme. Greer Muldowney guest jurors the show, which will exhibit 2D and 3D art and time media.
From their site:
Prospectus
City life may not be the first image that comes to mind when you imagine the New England landscape, but the region is sprinkled with historically rich and diverse cities both large and small. Whether you are in the bustling metro areas of Boston, nestled in the sleepy mountains of Vermont, or sit on the rocky coasts of Maine, you are always accompanied by a familiar charm. However, our states are still home to cities that have fallen into disrepair where vibrant mill industries once flourished, suffer from underfunded social programs, and a growing disparity among the folks that call the same place “home” is becoming more visible.
This regionally juried exhibition at Gallery 263 asks our community of New England: “How do each of us fit into this puzzle, and what is our relationship to our cities as artists?” All Interpretations and analysis’ of life in New England cities are encouraged.
It’s that time of year! The 6th Annual Somerville Toy Camera Festival! Perfect for fans of the Holga, Diana, and other fun plastic cameras! This is not a BVAA event but we have lots of fun entering photos into this show :).
From the official website:
EXHIBITION DATES:
September 2018
LOCATIONS:
Brickbottom Gallery, Nave Gallery, and Washington Street Gallery
JURIED BY:
Jennifer Shaw
The Somerville Toy Camera Festival seeks entries for its sixth annual celebration of toy and lo-fi photography.
Images of any subject matter, made with a “toy” camera – any low-tech camera with no or very limited exposure control, such as pinhole, Holga, Diana/Diana clones, Brownie, Ansco, disposable cameras – are eligible. The key criteria are plastic lenses and a lack of reliable exposure control. Straight Polaroid-type images, or images made with cell phones, digital cameras, or film cameras with full exposure control (such as the Lomo LC series), will not be considered.
Submission Deadline: June 24, 2018
Photographers will be notified by: July 20, 2018
Selected work must be received by: August 31, 2018
All shows will open by September 8, 2018. Gallery-specific opening dates and related events to be announced.
The final placement of work will be decided by the organizing committee. Accepted pieces must be delivered to the respective gallery framed and wired for hanging (or ready and equipped for display, in the case of viewing devices, constructions, etc). Artists are responsible for cost of shipping to and from the gallery.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
– There is a $25 submission fee per artist. Payment is made through the Nave Gallery – please include STCF in the memo
– A maximum of five pieces may be entered for consideration
The Premier Image Gallery in Ashland, Massachusetts is having its 2018 Summer Show! This will be a joint show between the Blackstone Valley Art Association and two other local art groups. There will be cash prizes!
Premier Image Gallery
290 Eliot Street
Ashland MA 01721
You can enter up to two pieces at $8 each. Pieces must be properly wired. The drop off dates are:
UPDATE: You can drop off on Monday June 11th as well! Call Don Gordon at 508-881-4730
Thu June 7 10-3
Fri June 8 10-3
Sat June 9 9-noon
If you can’t make it during those times, let us know and we can arrange someone else to coordinate with you to bring them in. You don’t have to fill out any forms with this. Just label the back with the usual artist name / title / medium / price and then the owner Don will fill out a hand-written inventory sheet when you get there.
The BVAA has historically done quite well at these open shows. It’s well worth entering!
The reception is Thursday, June 21st from 5-7pm. Bring a snack to share!
The pickup will be on August 16th and August 17th during the gallery’s normal business hours.
For more about the gallery including contact information visit:
This press release came via ArtsWorcester. We’re already losing Our Lady of Mount Carmel, above. Let’s not lose two churches in a row.
Call for Art: Show Us Your Notre Dame
DEADLINE: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Artists, here is a chance to win a significant cash prize and document our city’s living history! Please lend your talents to the effort to save the former church of Notre Dame des Canadiens downtown, slated for demolition within weeks—or at least, save its soul. An online, non-juried, and immediate exhibition will bear witness to this beautiful landmark building and fuel efforts to save it. Ten prizes of $250 each will be awarded by a group of Worcester’s leading art professionals.
The organizers seek artwork that conveys the beauty of Notre Dame, envisions how it could be repurposed to become the crown jewel of Worcester, and documents what may be its last hours–or the beginning of its new life.
This is urgent: they need your images or video by Wednesday, May 30. Send them your visual art, dance, music, poetry or prose, conceptual or performance art, anything that can be photographed or recorded and submitted electronically for us to upload to the exhibition website.
Bring your camera, your instrument, your sketchbook to Notre Dame this week, and let your art speak truth to power. Notre Dame itself is now fenced and off-limits, so artists must work from public vantage points (sidewalks, Worcester Common, Worcester Public Library).
Artwork must be submitted as a high-resolution jpg or video to savenotredame2018@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 30 at 6pm. Please include your name, youth/student status (if applicable), the medium, title (if there is one), and the day and time you made the piece. We will upload your work into the online exhibition in real time. By submitting images, you give permission for Save Notre Dame Alliance to use them for publicity purposes.
Jim Welu, Juliet Feibel, Luis Fraire, and Honee Hess will award ten cash prizes of $250 each, including youth/student prizes. These prizes are funded by visionary citizens who see Notre Dame as art and believe that art can help save it. The winners will be announced at a public event within a week after the submission deadline passes.
All artists are eligible to participate, regardless of where they live or previous experience. We encourage participation by children and student artists, amateurs and professionals!
Please share this call widely. New England is already watching what we do with Notre Dame. Help us all see this special place through your eyes, and bear witness to this moment in our city.
The Save Notre Dame Alliance thanks ArtsWorcester, the Sprinkler Factory, Worcester Center for Crafts, and WICN for their collaboration and support.
Here are a few photos from the 2018 Palette Show at Alternatives Whitinsville! There were some great entries this year! BVAA members Beverly Tinklenberg, Carole Plante, and Lisa Shea participated.
The show is live through April 27, 2018 – get on out to see it!
Beverly Tinklenberg
Carole Plante
Lisa Shea
The Heritage Gallery at Alternatives’ Whitin Mill
50 Douglas Rd
Whitinsville, MA
The Heritage Gallery is free to visit and open to the public Monday – Friday from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. For more information contact Cristi Collari at (508) 234-6232 or Cristi.Collari@AlternativesNet.org.
This great news tidbit comes from member Mike Zeis!
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Cemal Ekim, who was the judge for the BVAA Anything Goes exhibit in January 2013, is leading a roundtable on Landscape Photography at the next meeting of the Film Photographers Association.
I’ve been to Cemal’s roundtables covering still life photography, abstract photography, and fine art photography. These sessions start with opening remarks that cover the given topic generally as art. Then Cemal covers the emergence of the artistic form in photography, illustrated by examples from top photographers. After about 15 minutes or so of foundation, discussion begins. I find both parts of the evening to be stimulating. Cemal’s presentation helps me understand the subject and get a feel for some of the distinctions that make a difference, and the discussion provides a feel for practical application.
Date/time: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 7:00 (for socializing and snacks). The discussion starts at 7:30. The meeting ends at 9 pm.
Place: Rev. Larson Senior Center, 25 South Main Street , Attleboro, MA 02703.
Getting there: You can travel there on your own, or you can come along with me. I will leave Uxbridge at 6:30 pm, and can take three people with me. (Honda says my Pilot can fit two more in the seats behind the seats, but these last two have to clamber into the way-back.) We’ll meet in the parking lot by the Uxbridge gallery. Post here if you’re interested!
